Improvement in coffin-handles



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo FRANCIS X. GARTLAND, OF PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA.

.IMPROVEMENT IN COFFIN-HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,570, dated August1, 1876; application tiled March 6, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS X. GARTLAN'D, of the city and county ofPhiladelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovementin Fastening Handles of Burial Coflins and Gaskets; and l dohereby declare the following to be a clear and exact description ofthenature thereof, sutlicient to enable others skilledin the art to whichmy invention appertains to fully understand, make, and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part ot' thisspecification, in which- Figure l is a face view of the handle. Fig. 2is a view of the inner end ot' the fastening. Fig. 3 is a transversesection in line :c a, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of theplate or bracket and pins.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

It is well known that when handles are attached to burial coins andcaskets, boxes, 85e., the leverage of the handle and slight hold ofscrews and strain thereon pull out the screws and release the handle. Myinvention is designed to remedy these detects, and consists of slottedpins cast solid with the brackets and wedging-keys, whereby thehandlewill be more firmly and conveniently secured in position.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the handle, which is pivotcd orxed to the ears or brackets B, as usual. C represents pins, which arecast solid with the brackets, and in which are formed, near their endsor points, slots D, into which are fitted wedgeshaped keys E.

The handle is properly located on the article F, to which it is to besecured, and the pins L) are passed through openings in the article F.Then the keys E are driven through the slots D, and the handle will besecurely connected and held to the article F.

Washers G may be interposed between the keys and article F to preventcutting of the latter and insure the hold of the handle.

I am aware that slotted bolts with wedgeshaped locking-pins, in lieu ot'nuts, are common in many places, butldo not know of their use inconnection with handles, especially coftin-handles.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The handle-fastening, consisting of the handle A and brackets B, incombination with slotted pins C, cast in one with the brackets, and thewedging-keys E, all as set forth, and forming a new article ot'manufacture.

FRANCIS X. GARTLAND.

Witnesses:

J oHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, JNO. A. BELL.

